For ten years up to 2010, Ken Wilcox was chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank, and one of the key drivers of its strategy of lending to the tech sector. SVB’s collapse in 2023 made international headlines: But in his new book, The China Business Conundrum, he tells the tale of the period after he stepped down from being the bank’s CEO and went to lead its efforts to expand in China, where it invested over $100 million to form a joint venture with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. A lightly
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